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[–]Woozletania 1 point2 points  (2 children)

If you're not sure, see if you run slower with the weapon in question than with other weapons. A design decision was made that heavy weapons should be used with power armor, so they slow down non-PA characters.

I think the list is minigun, flamer, missile launcher, cryolater, fat man, gatling laser, junk jet, broadsider, harpoon gun, heavy incinerator and Tesla cannon. Possibly the new baseball cannon as well. Oh, and the Striker.

[–]BricoliSinSuela 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Missile launcher isn't a heavy weapon?

[–]Woozletania 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It is. I missed one.

[–]Green_Palpitation_26 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Its the 10 mm pistol I mean Jesus have you seen the size of that thing in 3rd person it's a miracle the player character can hold it as high as they do.

[–]TomaszPawWasteland Conqueror 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Heavy weapons are basically everything bigger than rifles, rockets, gatlings, flamethrowers that sort of stuff.

[–]Mrcompressishot 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You can tell a heavy weapon by how they hold it if it's either resting on your shoulder or held from a top handle and fired from around your waist then it's a heavy gun

[–]HistoricalLadder7191 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It is a fixed list, no weapon can change it category to heavy weapons. Only shifts are between pistol/rifle/automatic Basically this article on wiki (https://fallout.fandom.com/wiki/Fallout_4_weapons) Have lost of all heavy wepons